Shakespeare scholar Deirdre Gunn, her reputation tarnished by an affair with a student, is denied tenure at Melrose University. Her career seems ruined, until a classmate from her student days approaches her with a centuries-old manuscript that may be Shakespeare's lost play, "Cardenio, " If genuine, the manuscript is priceless. Here is Deirdre's chance to redeem her reputation and return with glory to the academic world.